Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Vicente Fernandez

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Vicente Fernández Gómez was a Mexican singer, actor, and film producer. Nicknamed "Chente", "El Charro de Huentitán", "El Ídolo de México", and "El Rey de la Música Ranchera", Fernández started his career as a busker, and went on to become a cultural icon, having recorded more than 50 albums and contributing to more than 30 films. His repertoire consisted of rancheras and other Mexican classics.

Mexican - Singer | February 17, 1940 - December 12, 2021

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When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.

Vicente Fernandez

I will live my whole life in Mexico. I want that to be clear.

Vicente Fernandez

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

Vicente Fernandez

It gives me great pleasure to team up with a friend like Budweiser that shares with me the same values and vision that help empower the Hispanic community - higher learning and education.

Vicente Fernandez

They wanted to give me some other man's liver, and I told them 'I'm not going to sleep next to my wife with another man's liver.'

Vicente Fernandez

For me, putting on my charro outfit is a matter of pride and it's a very big responsibility.

Vicente Fernandez

When I started my career, I always had the confidence that I would one day make it, but I never imagined that I would reach the heights at which the public has placed me.

Vicente Fernandez

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.

Vicente Fernandez

There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived on a ranch. They never knew what it was to milk a cow, to birth a calf, to shoe a horse. I've lived all that.

Vicente Fernandez

With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.

Vicente Fernandez

Some of my earliest memories, from when I was six or seven, are of going to see Pedro Infante movies and telling my mother, 'When I grow up I want to be like them.'

Vicente Fernandez

I could attempt a project in English, but I'd like to continue singing in Spanish.

Vicente Fernandez

No one will ever be able to say, 'Ay, Chente, he's all washed up. He should have thrown in the towel years ago.'

Vicente Fernandez

Everybody who sings with me has to sing ranchero. Roberto Carlos had to sing ranchero, Vikki Carr had to record ranchero. Celia Cruz came in with a mariachi.

Vicente Fernandez

From my country, they will only take me out feet first.

Vicente Fernandez

When I hear the public's applause, I don't know where the voice comes from, but it does for three hours.

Vicente Fernandez

I want to do interviews in English, but I want to sing in Spanish. I think it could work.

Vicente Fernandez

Everything evolves. I'll always sing ranchera, but as an artist, you want to explore, to do the most that you can.

Vicente Fernandez

I accept recording with everybody, as long as it's with a mariachi.

Vicente Fernandez

I abide to God's will and I feel that from up above, God and my parents have guided my career.

Vicente Fernandez

When I come to America, I feel like I'm coming to visit family, to bring a reminder of home to those who can't be there.

Vicente Fernandez

I have many hits, big hits, that have been written by people I don't know. In almost all my shows, people say, 'Chente, here's a CD.' When I get home, I listen to them all, and what I like, I record.

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I think the United States is extremely important for Mexican music.

Vicente Fernandez

I would love to be on Oprah or Larry King.

Vicente Fernandez

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

Vicente Fernandez